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Issue: Action Comics #509
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Is Variant Variant: British
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 43
Pages: 68
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UPC/EAN: 0709893041007
Price: £0.15 GBP
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
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8 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; then standard Silver Age US; then standard Modern Age US
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Binding: saddle-stitched (squarebound #334, 347, 360, 373, 437, 443, 449, 544, 600)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

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Superman
Superman! Why are you doing this to us?
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Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
The Great Space-Travel Hoax!

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Superman [Clark Kent]
Superman battles a weird alien and saves a space probe. Clark Kent interviews skeptics who say space travel is impossible. Turns out, the two are connected, as the skeptics are actually aliens who forgot they are aliens.
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A Flash in the Dam

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The Computers That Saved Metropolis!

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"Cover" for the advertising insert.
The Computers That Saved Metropolis!

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Superman [Clark Kent]; Major Disaster [Paul Booker]; Shanna; Alec; Margaret Wilson; John Bardeen (Nobel Scientist, Cameo); William Schockley (Nobel Scientist, Cameo); Walter Brattain (Nobel Scientist, Cameo); Lana Lang
Alec and Shanna use a pair of TRS-80 computers to help Superman stop Major Disaster after Superman's powers become difficult for him to control.
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advertising insert for Radio Shack
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Our TRS-80 computer answers check!
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"Back cover" of advertising insert.
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The Answer Man
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Includes a section titled "The Answer Man's 'What's It Worth' Department."

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